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    Ray Bradbury
    R is For Rocket; A Medicine for Melancholy; Fahrenheit 451...
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    Eliza Farnham
    California, in-doors and out; My early days; Ideal attained...
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    William Maxwell
    All the days and nights; The chateau; They came like swallows...
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Pearl Kastran Ahnen

Born: in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Ahnen was born in Illinois and went to school in Michigan where she remained.

Biography: Pearl Kastran Ahnen was a newspaper journalist and editor before she became a full time writer.

Awards:

Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Pearl Kastran Ahnen on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=pearl+++kastran++ahnen

Selected Titles

Daughter of immigrants /
ISBN: 1592868320 OCLC: 54759851

PublishAmerica, Baltimore, Md. : ©2003.

Legends and legacies :
ISBN: 0964993007 OCLC: 34710640

Legna Press, Ann Arbor, Mich. : ©1995.

  Revealed by fire :
ISBN: 0615135196 OCLC: 85481365

Legna Press, Glenn, Mich. : ©2007.

 

 

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